Coloring for kids. Step by step drawing of an IRIS in pencil

If you are a little kid and want to learn drawing flowers, then start with step by step drawing them in pencil. This picture of a nice IRIS will be, perhaps, your first drawing of a flower. Follow our instrucrions and you`ll manage to draw it.

Draw an IRIS

IRIS has a special structure — its petals on the stalk form a bowl which is surrounded with the tops of other petals at the base. Look how it looks in the picture below:

How to draw an IRIS

Step 1
First draw the flowers with light and smooth lines. All flowers are usually started drawing with the center. So, outline the flower middle and then draw each petal.

Step 2
Now outline the position of the leaves on the iris stalk. You have to try as the leaves are often as beautiful and complicated in the structure and shape as the flowers themselves. The thoroughly drawn leaf defines the flower structure and is a fine contrasting background for it.

Step 3
You should give a flower a volume shape depicting it as volume lines. Now draw the flower pistils and stamens.

Step 4
Now you are to outline the flower contours, draw the iris leaves with light touches, pick out the main flower parts with a pencil. And you also should delineate light and shade of the picture.

Delineating light and shade is very important as light stresses the convex parts of the flower and makes shade in the parts which are far from lighting. Eventually you`ll have such a picture:

Do you like your Iris? Now paint it in blue, yellow or pink colors and may show to your mom, dad or granny — they`ll like it too.